Womens team to attend World Cup in Argentina (Vikings)
Australian and NZ teams invited to attend the 2010 Womens Futsal World Cup
20 November, 2009
Australia and New Zealand have been invited to attend the second Women’s World Cup scheduled for October 2010.
The squad to attend the World Cup will be selected at the national titles in Sydney in January with further training camps throughout the year.
In preparation for the world Cup the team will travel to Brazil for a 2 week training camp prior to the competition, then from there heading on to Argentina.
8 Comments
Nov 23, 2009, 2:59 pm
Is this a FIFA event? I am getting confused when I see a Vikings team supposedly representing Australia at a World Cup. I thought FFA teams represented Australia? It’s hard to know which teams are truly representing Australia, or even whether all these events that Vikings are entered into are actually FIFA sanctioned.
Nov 23, 2009, 4:37 pm
Phil, I think you’ll find the FFA and FIFA do absolutely nothing for womens Futsal so no need for the confusion.
Good luck to the girls finally they are getting the chance to play
Nov 23, 2009, 5:57 pm
@Phil. This is not a FIFA or FFA sanctioned event as there is no FIFA World Cup for Women, only for Men.
Nov 23, 2009, 6:27 pm
Just curious to see that the previous AMF “World Cup” had “countries” like Catalonya, Galicia ( both Spanish regions/states) and there is even a mention of “Andean Region (region Andeana)” from Chile…
I am just curious to find out if “Outback Northern Territory” will be sending a team to the “World Cup” in 2010! Crocodile Dundee could be the coach…
Nov 23, 2009, 7:40 pm
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA @ Curious! That was funny mate lol!
Nov 24, 2009, 10:03 am
Hilarious Curious! However I believe the reason (and please someone correct me if wrong) that countries such as ie: Spain play under states such as Catalonya is due to the FIFA governing body issuing ‘smackdowns’ to AMF organisations representing as a certain country so they pursue other avenues (who better to welcome with open arms than the Catalonians grasping at the independence straw?), Much like the Two Brazilian groups, Chile etc in South America. Much like ‘Malta’ which was filled with English players due to FIFA controlling the English Futsal game. Some countries football/futsal governing bodies are more forceful than others. While good examples, France and Belgium, where the AMF and FIFA organisations work side by side for both competitions. Selections, competitions, everything (last time i heard of course), it is run seperate, but out of mutual respect. Fielding stronger sides for both AMF and FIFA tournaments and developing the game in their respective countries.
Nov 24, 2009, 10:07 am
Also the AMF often have World Club Cups, sometimes these are confused in translation programs I have found. And if an Aussie Team ever goes, the newspapers always seem to report them as ‘World Cups’
Nov 24, 2009, 10:09 am
Or let us not forget the Poor USA! Where the FIFA group had the word ‘Futsal’ Copyrighted! So the USA AMF group had some ridiculously long name so as not to be sued (It was overturned in court a couple of years ago i think)Imagine copyrighting the name of a sport!